The Oranges

The Oranges are a group of four municipalities in Essex County, New Jersey, all of which have the word Orange in their name. The four municipalities are Orange, East Orange, South Orange and West Orange.

Type: group of settlements
Description: group of towns in Essex County, New Jersey, United States of America
Also known as: “The Oranges, NJ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Seton Hall University and Orange station.

Seton Hall University

University

Seton Hall University is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States.

Orange station

Railway station

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Orange is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. One of two stops in the city, it is served by New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines: the Morristown Line to Hackettstown and the Gladstone Branch to Gladstone for trains from New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal.

Brick Church station

Railway station

Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brick Church is an active commuter railroad station in the city of East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. The station, one of two in East Orange, is located a block away from the former site of the Brick Presbyterian Church, for which the neighborhood takes its name, designed with brick romanesque architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maplewood and Montclair.

Maplewood

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Maplewood is a township in Essex County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is an inner-ring suburban bedroom community of New York City in the New York metropolitan area.

Montclair

Photo: Tlantanu, Public domain.

Montclair is a moderately built-up, leafy town of 39,000 people in Essex County, northern New Jersey. The neighborhood of Upper Montclair is full of mansions that can be seen while driving by.

Newark

Photo: Hudconja, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Newark is New Jersey's largest city and second largest in Metro New York. Although one of the great historic cities of the Northeast and the most culture-rich city in the state, Newark is often overlooked in favor of Goliath-like Manhattan and towns along the Hudson River, such as Jersey City and Hoboken.

The Oranges

Location: Essex County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.764° or 40° 45′ 50″ north

Longitude

-74.237° or 74° 14′ 13″ west

Open location code

87G7QQ77+J6

Wikidata ID

Q7755263

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Esperanto to Japanese—“The Oranges” goes by many names.

Esperanto: “La Oranĝoj”
Esperanto: “The Oranges”
Finnish: “The Oranges”
French: “The Oranges”
Ido: “The Oranges”
Japanese: “オレンジズ地方”

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Localities in the Area

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